[THIN] Re: Multiple printers with thin clients

  • From: "Scott Reichardt" <sreichardt@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 10:03:24 -0500

The remote office is sitting behind a 3com officeconnect firewall using
network address translation.

The thinclients are all assigned internal private ip's on a class c subnet.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Reese" <GReese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 9:50 AM
Subject: [THIN] Re: Multiple printers with thin clients


>
> so the remote office has one remote IP and its own firewall?  Do you =
> have the remote office setup as a subnet?  You could then just give the =
> new printer an ip of that subnet and set a route on your firewall.  What =
> kind of firewall are you using?
>
> Greg
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Reichardt [mailto:sreichardt@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 10:33 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Multiple printers with thin clients
>
>
> Using NAT, I have a remote office with only thin clients and a network =
> printer (not physically connected to the thinclient) who connect to a mf =
> xp fr2 server farm across the wan.  Their print traffic gets redirected =
> back to the printer at the remote office fine.  My problem is, there is =
> going to be more than one printer at this remote office.  I'll need to =
> distinguish which printer the print job gets redirected to.  How will I =
> do this with only one external IP assigned to the remote office?  For =
> the one printer I just have the firewall map the port its connecting on =
> to the internal IP of the printer.  Unless there is a way to change =
> printer port numbers for the additional printers, how is this going to =
> be possible when I just have the one external IP assigned to me?  =
> Netbios sharing isn't an option because those ports are blocked by my =
> ISP.
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